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Achilles, doomed to never return home Spent ten years of a war in his tent Finding home in Patroclus’s warmth Helen ran towards her heart’s desire Knowing a thousand ships would follow But the peace of love triumphs over any war Calypso, cursed to love those who cannot stay Can’t stop...

The movie starts like this- a soccer team that doesn’t know the meaning of the word team. The players all fight for the most glory, to be the one to score the goal. They gather in groups during practice to whisper hate. United they do not stand so together all they do is fall. They are friends...

I will never love you I may like you very much But it will never be love I’m sorry. You are kind and you are good And I am happy around you But goodness and kindness are not enough And I am sorry for that I need someone that thinks a step ahead One that pushes me forward To reach concl...

A girl, without her oxygen tank for the first time since her diagnosis, wakes up one last time to say “I’m going, I’m going.” Her sister asks where and she replies “I’m dreaming” before closing her eyes. With family by her side, she sleeps on for three more hours. The teen’s eyes ope...

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3.064 and 28
I am the schedule full of AP classes
And the 4 I got on a test last May
I am advanced and accelerated on the OGT
And yes, I'm that 14 out of 40 on my last math test
I am my student ID, my GPA, my ACT
I'm that bad mood on a test day
That time my fingers ache...

Whenever I try to look nice
I get told it’s putting lipstick on a pig
But I disagree
Even the most basic hygiene at this point
Is makeup on a pig
My body is full of mud
Made from the dirt in Irish fields
Used over and over to grow the same crop
Until there was nothing of use left
And yiel...

I fell in love with history in third grade. We learned about the Titanic and I began to read story after story about the people on the ship, both fictional and real. My teacher also shared the story of a girl hiding in an attic who wrote in her diary. She died in the end but her diary lives on. I co...

If poetry is a war
Then I want my words
At the top of the highest hill
Where the chances of winning are the best
Where my words can ride down into waiting heads
And pick off thoughts before they take root
If poetry is a war
Then words poorly placed in the trenches
Will rarely see the lig...

You weave your tears into words
Laced with letters of liquid laughter
Stitched together with spun heartstrings
Creating a cloack clentched in your fists
Dragged across your shoulders
It's wrapped upon your soul
A quiet wish to hide your true colors
Not wanting to be bare.
But one day y...

There are a thousand words to describe sad
Blue, desparing, melancholy, morose
Each word I use is a personal fad
But feelings come in a near lethal dose
How dare I think one word can describe life?
One word cannot show what I feel inside
One word cannot tell the story of my strife
But from th...

I keep trying to find the right words
And put them in the right order
To describe exactly what it feel like
To sit alone at lunch at a table
Where everyone puts their books
Listening to converastions unable to join them
Having nobody to turn to in class
Unable to join a club without a ...

Notebook tucked under my chin
Back hunched over
Pen moving across paper as a bow over strings
The gentle scratch of written words
This is the music I make
Not heard aloud but seen
Coming alive in a mind
I am a composer
Of silent ballads and symphonies
A cacophony of words tha...

In August, a tornado swept through town
Disappearing before daybreak and when people woke up
They looked out their window
And realization hit as the dawn appeared
We sat in silence in the calm of the storm
Then the wind picked up again
And the rain started pelting us
And thunder boomed and ...

They never said it would feel like this
They never said loneliness will grab hold of your heart
Drag you into the sea and refuse to let you up to take a breath
A horrible pain that will not end
But you cannot die
They never said that being alone hurts this much
That it makes getting out of b...

My thoughts float over the ground
They fly between blades of grass
Around sweet smelling flowers
Through the leaves of trees
The thoughts float on the clouds
And ride them for some time
They rush over rocks with the water
And get swept downstream
They go like that for many mi...

I am of the Earth
Feet firmly planted on rich soil
Blades of grass between my toes
Accepting earthly pleasures
Rejecting gods above
Refusing gods below
With water rushing behind me
I am home
But he is of the sky
A star nearly consumed by darkness
The Tao says to abandon desires
He does so...

I wake up in a chair. I must have fallen asleep while reading. My face, it's wet. Why is it wet? I must be crying, but why? Suddenly, the nightmares come rushing back. Even in my old age, the horrors of my superhero crime fighting days and The Great Super War bother me. I was once a superhero,...

A footprint laid down by a traveler
The tide washes in
The footprint washes out
It is gone
The traveler walks by years later
And ponders why the water
Erased that step so key to him
It was never there
Yet still the traveler longs
Knows that he was there
Has no proof, only memory
The...

The crisp air flows
Turning winter into spring
Flowers bloom and grass grows
And none shall be the same
The breeze soon disappears
Flowers fade and the weak die
Summer comes and life plateaus
And nothing was the same
Still we remember those
Songs we sang in the spring
The lives we had ...

One night the stars whispered my name
And I climbed the night to join them
That is night I started waltzing with them
A dance that flowed and never stopped
It was lonely up there
Dancing without a partner
Only stars, only stars
Looking down upon the world
And the people who could never dream...

“Sophie Scholl, your sentence has not been repealed. The time is now 17:00 and you are to be executed for high treason.” You do not wince, you do not cry. You are going to die for speaking the truth about Hitler. You did what few others have dared, will dare, to do. You dared to make a stand, f...

I asked you to be my brilliant knight
The one to take me far away from this
Make my life a fairy tale I can write
Steal me away with a beautiful kiss
Can you be the bright light in my dark life?
Your shining armor protecting our joy
Leading us away from soul crushing strife
We can be great li...

I used to like the smell of cigarettes
Alcohol reminds me of being home
Both scents remind me of what I regret
And people say that all roads lead to Rome
But this road I’m wandering leaves me lost
Home is where the heart is and my heart’s gone
I am wandering far but at what cost?
Life is...